Legal group releases guide to GPL compliance
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DOJ files complaint against online ad firm

Here come rebates for energy-efficient storage

FaceTime wins lawsuit against Thomson Reuters over IM code

Six U.S. states account for half of national piracy losses, BSA says

Q&A: E-voting activist more optimistic about voting systems

Unstructured data at risk in most firms, survey finds

Greenpeace says e-waste from U.S. stopped in Hong Kong

California lawmaker puts Google on notice about missing link to privacy policy

No fast resolution seen for FTC's antitrust probe of Intel

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The key to data security: Separation of duties
Separation of duties is a key control in finance, and it should be required in information security, too. It requires that no one person is able to compromise information.

Opinion: Encryption compliance still the Wild West
Companies cannot assume that because they have encrypted data or implemented encryption key management that they are protected from future legal liabilities or have complied with the law.

The Rise of Videoconferencing
Mark Hall sees the rising cost of travel as a good reason to take a new look at videoconferencing.

Automating change management
Common issues arising with change management are related to difficulty handling emergency changes to material systems, unauthorized changes and problems dealing with security and unauthorized access.

Q&A: Iron Mountain Digital president talks off-site storage
John Clancy has overseen several acquisitions, including a $158 million purchase last October of Stratify, which sells e-discovery services in the legal market. Clancy spoke with Network World this week at Iron Mountain Digital's office in Southboro, Mass.

Opinion: Meeting IT supply and demand
A service catalog, along with associated service-level agreements, can be an effective vehicle for better management of the demand side of IT infrastructure. Expressing offerings in business terms enables service selection that is better aligned with customer needs.

Where the truth is: Logs and breach-disclosure laws
A data breach and the ensuing public relations nightmare is something no company wants to deal with. Contributor Anton Chuvakin suggests that keeping good log data could ease the pain if that comes to pass.

Cutting Compliance Costs
Mark Hall hears a claim that management software is bringing down the cost of compliance.

Four tips for crafting a document retention policy
The 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley regulations served as a wake-up call for CIOs to formalize document retention policies to meet compliance requirements.Members of the CIO Executive Council, who meet regularly to discuss compliance approaches, share techniques that have made document retention policies work for them.

5 Eco-Friendly Gadgets
Are you trying to be more environmentally conscious? That doesn't have to mean buying a Prius or installing solar-energy panels on your roof. There are less-expensive ways to be green, from bringing your own reusable bag to the grocery store to cutting down on the number of catalogs you receive in the mail (for help on that, check out my new favorite site, Catalog Choice). And, of course, a slew of new environmentally friendly consumer electronics can help with the cause.

Here are 15 devices and add-ons that make the back-to-school computing experience extraordinary. As Facebook-like apps infiltrate the enterprise, they're integrating the workforce in unforeseen ways. If you want to expand the visual capabilities of your laptop, you can add two monitors without spending a lot of time or money. The latest iteration of Asus' groundbreaking mini-notebook adds a faster CPU, a larger display and a better keyboard.

Reviews, analyses, how-tos, visual tours, hot issues and predictions about Microsoft's new OS.

Four years from now, the IT field will be a vastly different place. Will you be ready?

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